2025 Best Political Economy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
120Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in political economy, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #446 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for political economy students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 120 bachelor's degrees in political economy during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Political Economy School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of political economy for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality political economy program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on political economy students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of political economy students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized political economy related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for political economy students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Political Economy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Political Economy Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Gain a solid understanding of American political history, the current political landscape, and the major political parties with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).